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NOT READY FOR THE PLUNGE?

Friday, August 6, 2010

One of the best things about working in the arts in New York right now is the preponderance of small-scale, independent projects, schools, and initiatives. Places like The Bruce High Quality Foundation University and the Public School, NYC are great outlets for people seeking engaging dialogue about the arts but who are not ready to [...]

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The Original Copy

Friday, July 30, 2010

It’s always a treat when the great monoliths of the museum world mount curatorially innovative shows to balance out the crowd-drawing blockbusters. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today is a wonderful example of this. Housed in one of the two immense spaces on the Museum of Modern Art’s sixth floor, next to [...]

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NEW LIGHTS

Friday, July 23, 2010

Sometimes there are bands that you just don’t want to change – for me, Interpol is such a band, my perfect aggregation of what independent rock should sound like. So I’m happy to hear that the teaser track from their forthcoming album, called, erm, Interpol, picks up exactly where they left off with 2007′ brilliant [...]

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Best of Cities

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Many people do not know which city they like best. And some have not even been there, yet. Ever since Rome was abandoned as the top city, people just could not know. For a while Paris was the best town, then again London and even New York. Lately, Berlin has been a favourite among Australians [...]

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GRID COLLAPSE

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Carsten Nicolai is a busy man: not only is the Berlin-based artist currently in the process of transforming the façade of the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin, he also has a new show opening at The Pace Gallery in New York this Thursday exploring moirés, the visual interference of conflicting grid systems. The exhibition will also [...]

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RUMMAGING THROUGH THE LIFE SCIENCES

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

For Sissel Tolaas there are not ‘good’ or ‘bad’ smells. She sees smell as information, or a tool of navigation and communication. Several contemporary artists decided to put nature on a different level of perception too. While most people feel disgusted by a crawling cockroach, a picture of a human skull made out of shiny [...]

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CIVILISATION

Thursday, April 22, 2010

‘Civilisation’ is a video mural by artist Marco Brambilla, created as a permanent installation for the Standard Hotel in New York. It is a collage of film references, containing 300 looped HD clips layered into a single tableaux on a digital canvass of 1920 x 7500 pixels. It is viewed from inside the elevators according [...]

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THIRTY DAYS WITH THE FAMILY

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Sometimes one can’t help that feeling of being in the wrong place – tomorrow, I’d certainly like to be in New York for the temporary relocation of our friends at LA bookstore Family, who were among the first to bring mono.kultur to the US. They will be opening a temporary 4200 sq foot space in [...]

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THE ARTIST IS PRESENT: ADDENDUM

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

And if you’re not in New York but still want the visceral thrill of Marina, you can watch her live! While the performance really must be seen in person (every sway of her body sends shivers down your spine), the video gives some sense of the scale at which she is operating. She is sitting [...]

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THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

If you happen to be in New York until May 31, 2010, don’t miss the performance retrospective The Artist Is Present of Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art, a four-decade survey of her work, with quite an impressive live performance in the atrium.
To get an idea of the show, read the articles of [...]

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